Last time we saw that Peter was determine to drag Russia from quagmire of Muscovite routine, but literally had not had any ground to build St. Petersburg on this particular spot. Hence as a legend has it He, built the city in midair and lowered it down on this mushy soils. And this legend is based on popular opinion, that Peter built St. Petersburg on empty spot, but it’s not entirely true. Where Neva makes a sharp turn on the right bank side of the river, near confluence with river Okhta. Which starts up north on Karelian Isthmus and flows into Neva, as early as 1632 stood the Swedish fortress Nyenshkans(Kantzi in Russian variant). Which served as a port of call and was quite developed with Lutheran church on the main square in the middle built by Italian architect.
History of St. Petersburg city foundation
